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This is a wine which blows off in opposite directions from the norm in the decanter. On first pour, Donald’s big, almost-chubby nose of glycerine and leather hits hard, wooing the faint and sealing the deal for *most* consumers. In the mouth, it is ripe and voluptuous, creating–in the shallow thinker–a perfect glow of glorious Napa cab: ripe and sweet and oaky and lovely. But wait. Then you…

Here’s another one I’m gonna chalk up to the chubby chubby 12 issue. Yes, I know it’s your favorite vintage of the teens, and for exactly the same reason I have hated it and predicted terrible things. Big, lush, ripe, 90+ wines of yummy flab and syrupy deliciousness which Just. Can’t. Go. The. Distance. Ten years. That’s all we ask. Is that too much? For some, it is. And this is a great wine, one…

Day 2 in the Rubissow-Sargent realm, this considerably softer St. Em blend of CF and ME is definitely showing its age. Unlike the 94 cab of last night, this 93 Les Trompettes brings Robitussin and green-briar to the nose and chalky, dry, fruitless well-aged nothingness to the palate. I mean… it’s *good*… I’m not kicking it outa bed but I mean by all rights and purposes, this thing is DONE.

Not…

Murky funky nose, steely wirh fresh-baked bread, chubby squished-bug and vegetable cooler all the way. Clean forward fruit but toned down into abrasive carborundum, chaparral and funky cool apple and orange peel in the mouth. A beautiful Lake County cool-climate zin, not suffering from many of the ills befalling zinfandel these days.

Claret-like and significantly lean, something many zin…